Here I will chronicle my weight loss journey which actually began a couple of years ago...I've already lost a bunch of weight, gained a few pounds, but I've never gone back to where I was for so many years after I had Megan.

this was me at my work with Julie (heidi's daughter) at around 240 pounds...

this was me at the office Christmas party with Melissa & Alex in 2008 (at 240 lbs)

I never want to go there again

I got down to around 175 pounds -- the first time I'd been under 200 pounds since I can remember. Then I went through some life changes and got back up a little bit... the journey REALLY began when I was rushed to the emergency room in an ambulance back in the summer of 2008...with what they called a "thunderclap" headache... the doctors didn't find anything life threatening (although at first they were worried about my life)...but it turned out I had high blood pressure, high blood sugar, too much fat around my liver, high triglycerides... and somehow this exacerbated the headache issue. It was a few months after hitting the emergency room with horrible, mind numbing headaches that I decided to go for it -- to change my life...